By analyzing the flowerpot snake's unique genome, scientists are uncovering how the tiny reptile repairs its DNA and prevents harmful mutations. The findings provides valuable insights into genetic ...

In a new paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics researchers from the University of Vermont and Trinity College ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis ...

Credit: Branyas Morera family archive / Public Domain Maria Branyas Morera, who was the world’s oldest person before she died in Spain last August at age 117, attributed her long life to “luck and ...

and potentially also variation in evolutionarily conserved noncoding regions (39). Finally, genetic variants that have been under evolutionary selection are by definition functional and thus may ...